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T1 spin-echo maps of red potato cubes being heated by flowing water at approximately 100$\\sp\\circ$C showed no temperature dependent profile.","The use of the change in precession frequency of the water proton with temperature (known as chemical shift imaging or phase mapping) proved more successful. Temperature maps of a gel, and of cooked and raw red potatoes were obtained during heating from 20 to 60$\\sp\\circ$C. Temperature resolution ranged between 0.3 and 3$\\sp\\circ$C, decreasing with increasing temperature due to a reduction in the signal to noise ratio. The difference in temperatures determined by MRI and thermocouples was less than 5$\\sp\\circ$C.","Chemical shift imaging was also used to obtain two dimensional temperature maps in potato particles undergoing aseptic processing. Large particles $(3/4\\times3/4\\times3/4\\sp{\\prime\\prime})$ showed a temperature difference ($\\Delta$T) of up to 22$\\sp\\circ$C in images obtained 45 seconds after exiting the heat exchanger with the $\\Delta$T of the carrier fluid across the heat exchanger being approximately 30 to 45$\\sp\\circ$C. No $\\Delta$T was measured in particles smaller than $1/2\\times1/2\\times1/2\\sp{\\prime\\prime}$ pumped at less than 6 gal/min. Using a finite element model of the heating process, average fluid to particle convective heat transfer coefficients $\\rm(h\\sb{fp})$ in the range of 600 to 2500 W/m$\\sp2\\sp\\circ$C were estimated for the large particles. For the smaller particles only a lower limit for $\\rm h\\sb{fp}$ of approximately 3000 W/m$\\sp2\\sp\\circ$C could be determined.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:10:53Z (GMT). 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